r/iRacing 8h ago

Official Announcements July 22nd Security Incident Update

157 Upvotes

You may have noticed our service was unavailable for about four hours today, July 22. We're sorry for the disruption.

We took the service offline to investigate and address a potential security issue. After a thorough investigation, we've confirmed that your account data was not compromised. Your passwords and data are secure, and remained secure throughout.

Over the coming weeks we'll be rolling out additional measures to harden our systems even further. As part of that, we'll invite you to reset your password at your convenience, and we'll ask everyone to do so at a later date. There's nothing you need to do right now.

Thanks for your patience, and for being an iRacing member.

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/98448/july-22nd-downtime-details


r/iRacing 12h ago

Official Announcements July 22nd - Emergency Maintenance Mode: Investigating a Security Issue

100 Upvotes

From the staff post on the member forums:

Hi, iRacing,

We've entered an unplanned emergency maintenance mode while we investigate a potential critical security issue.

We'll have more information for you after our initial investigation.

Demo Drive is up for your enjoyment!

Thank you for your patience.

ETA: From https://bsky.app/profile/iracingsupport.iracing.com/post/3mrasa5y4722g, they will be recommending (forcing?) password resets when service resumes.

ETA2: Apparently they've removed the phrase "critical security" from the forum post regarding this.

ETA3: Final update from iRacing staff on this outage:

You may have noticed our service was unavailable for about four hours today, July 22. We're sorry for the disruption.

We took the service offline to investigate and address a potential security issue. After a thorough investigation, we've confirmed that your account data was not compromised. Your passwords and data are secure, and remained secure throughout.

Over the coming weeks we'll be rolling out additional measures to harden our systems even further. As part of that, we'll invite you to reset your password at your convenience, and we'll ask everyone to do so at a later date. There's nothing you need to do right now.

Thanks for your patience, and for being an iRacing member.


r/iRacing 11h ago

Video Is there something more scary than knowing you are almost at the end of the race, you are first place and second P is right behind you, knowing LMP traffic is coming, and seeing you are approaching two lapped cars that are battling out in front you. I love these multi class races(most of the time)

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72 Upvotes

r/iRacing 7h ago

Question/Help What overlays are these?

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27 Upvotes

Anyone know what overlay pack this is?
It looks really close to NASCAR on TV.
Any ideas?


r/iRacing 1h ago

Question/Help Any solution for this?

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I saw that my steering wheel anger it’s making me lose alot of time this is a straight in Watkins glen how i can change this bad habit


r/iRacing 7h ago

Leagues/Hosted Grassroots Racing announces Sunday Night IndyCar!

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15 Upvotes

GRR, home of the popular GRR GT League and GRR Cup Series, is excited to announce our Sunday Night IndyCar League! A Free-to-Race league that will follow the Real Life IndyCar Schedule, along with an off-season schedule over the fall/winter time!

We look forward to building the community around this series to go along with our GT and Cup leagues, racing all the way to the GRAND OPENING and kicking of the 2027 Season Strong!

Join now, we are already racing EVERY SUNDAY! We will have our first mini-season begin later this year!

Join for FREE at discord.gg/grassrootsracing


r/iRacing 4h ago

Question/Help Mustang GT4 Tips?

6 Upvotes

I've been using the mustang gt4 in demo drive to get used to it and prepare for the mustang challenge, but I've been struggling to get consistently good or decent lap times. If anyone's got any tips for driving it or any gt4s then that'll be great


r/iRacing 13h ago

iRating/SR ITested is Week 13 driving

35 Upvotes

I don’t understand why people are treating ITested as similar driving standards to week 13? It’s not even counting IR and it’s basically free SR if you are careful while driving.

I checked some of the results of the ITested series and the majority who participated in the series has lost SR. Why aren’t people just treating this like a track day and being extra careful since the results don’t matter?


r/iRacing 23h ago

Question/Help I got called dirty for this last lap move for the win. Am I in the wrong?

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192 Upvotes

r/iRacing 14h ago

Series/Schedule Road America 6h Final BoP

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34 Upvotes

r/iRacing 10h ago

Video Slight overdramatised a friends crash (flash warning)

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17 Upvotes

r/iRacing 10h ago

Discussion Anybody else get faster relative to their iRating after switching to a faster series?

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I wanted to ask if anyone else has experienced what I experienced these last few weeks.

A little background information: I’ve always been primarily a GT3 racer and when I bought iRacing, I basically did whatever I needed to do in order to improve my SR to get into the GT3 races as quickly as I could. At the start of this season, my SR rating was high enough from last season to earn automatic promotion into A-class. This prompted me to try out the GTP’s, specifically in the IMSA series, and after a little bit of figuring out how to drive the GTP’s quickly during the Spa week, I’ve fallen in love with these cars and quickly found myself driving at a pace that far exceeds what my iR indicates what it should be.

Before this season, I refused to drive GTP’s/Prototypes on any other racing game I used to play because I hated them. They’re now my favorite class of racing. I’m hovering around a 1700-1850 iR, but my raw pace is that of drivers who are rated at 3k-7k depending on the track.

In GT3’s, I generally feel that my iRating is rather accurate for my pace/racecraft ability, or at least I’m at the pace of a 2k-2.2k driver, but this isn’t that large of a difference as compared to the GTP’s. I will add too that my driving in GT3’s is better now because of my practice with GTP’s which has made my driving inputs much smoother.

As an example in the fixed IMSA series, my PB on Interlagos was a 1:22.5, and my current PB on Road America is a 1:50.9 and I can consistently hit those lap times to within a .5 of a second (still improving my consistency), but the only drivers who are consistently hitting those same lap times or better in open practices/races are significantly ahead of me in terms of iRating. Just in the past week, I finally won my first IMSA race and it so happened to be the top split (which is my first top split win ever), and I beat out drivers who had well more than double my iRating.

Has anyone experienced this after moving to a faster series?


r/iRacing 2h ago

Question/Help GPU vs CPU Bottleneck

3 Upvotes

Hello, I am upgrading to 1440p triples soon and am wondering what will be the bottleneck of my system; GPU or CPU. I have an Intel Core Ultra 7 265(non-k) 2.4 GHZ, and was either going to get a 5070 vs a 5070ti GPU.

My question is, will my CPU bottleneck my system to the point where 5070ti vs 5070 is arbitrary? Is so I would prefer to just go with the cheaper 5070.


r/iRacing 17h ago

Apps/Tools Free setup sharing site + tray app that puts setups in the right folder automatically

45 Upvotes

I've been building this on and off for a while and finally got the desktop app to a usable state, so figured I'd share.

parcferme.cc — setups for iRacing, LMU and ACC. Free, no paywall, no subscription, browse without logging in.

The desktop app is the part I made for myself: click EQUIP on the site and the file goes straight into the right car folder in your iRacing setups directory. No downloads folder archaeology.

It's early (v0.2.0) so there are rough edges. If you've got a non-standard iRacing install path I'd especially like to hear about it.


r/iRacing 6h ago

Leagues/Hosted [League Recruitment] Bite Point Racing Season 6 | GT3 + 2017 WCS LMP2 | Thursdays | Live Stewarding & Broadcasts

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Registration is now open for Bite Point Racing Season 6.
This season introduces the 2017 WCS-spec LMP2 alongside GT3 in a 12-round multiclass championship featuring dynamic weather, strategic pit stops, and professionally managed race control.

Season Schedule :

- Daytona
- Spa-Francorchamps
- Laguna Seca
- Mosport (CTMP)
- Mount Panorama (Bathurst)
- Suzuka
- Silverstone
- Road Atlanta
- Watkins Glen
- Nürburgring Combined
- Monza
- Sebring

League Features:

- Open Setups
- Open Qualifying
- 60-minute races (plus two 90-minute feature events)
- Mandatory Pit Strategy
- Dynamic Weather
- Live Stewarding
- Professional Broadcasts
- Separate Pro & Pro/Am Championships
- Thursdays – Green Flag at 9:30 PM ET

$15 CAD Entry Fee

Whether you’re an experienced multiclass racer or looking to take the next step beyond official sessions, Bite Point Racing offers close, respectful competition in a professionally managed league.
Registration is now open at https://bitepointracing.com
If you have any questions, feel free to ask in the comments or send me a message. We look forward to seeing you on the grid.


r/iRacing 4h ago

Question/Help BMW M2 power level

3 Upvotes

Hello!

Two questions.

  1. Is there a way to force AI to use the same power level as you do? I go to the official M2 series and I click the race with AI button so it should be the same settings as the official races. But then when I’m driving the actual race with AI , on the straights they just F off into the distance as if they are using power level 5 and me using power level 1. How do I ensure we have the same power level?

  2. Is there a way on garage 61 to tell what power level we’re using on any lap time result? I’m trying to compare myself to other drivers but I never can tell if they were using the same power level as me.

Thanks!


r/iRacing 4h ago

Video The Highest of Highs and Lowest of Lows All in One Lap

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4 Upvotes

Qualified 8th and got hit by a turn 1 champion, but the car wasn’t too damaged.

Rejoined the race from the back and was having a good time passing all the snails trying to make the most of the situation. Pulled off the most satisfying lunge up the inside to reclaim a position that was taken from me while avoiding a crash.

Then, Poland’s finest showed up with a state of the art rejoin to end it all. The show goes on.


r/iRacing 12h ago

Question/Help iRacing down 22 July?

13 Upvotes

Servers are down, demo drive is on, but I don't remember seeing any announcements for maintenance and usually, any work is done by the time I get home.

Anyone have any idea what's going on at the moment? No announcements on the iRacing forums either, last one was for yesterday, 21 July.


r/iRacing 1d ago

Video A look at the new multi class starts from the first iTested race!

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562 Upvotes

r/iRacing 4m ago

Question/Help P1doks or go setups

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Trying to figure out which is more worth it for gt3 and gtp. Already using an overlay app so won’t need that if I get go setups.


r/iRacing 18h ago

Misc Hypothetical question regarding the iTested series

27 Upvotes

I haven't had a chance to try out the newly released league yet. However, I was drinking my morning coffee and two questions came to mind:

  1. What happens when two cars crash or get left behind during the GTP formation? Do the two following formations come to a full stop?
  2. What happens if the GTPs get the green flag, but someone in LMP2 crashes or gets left behind? Do the GT3s come to a halt while the GTPs catch up with them?

Knowing iRacing and other multiclass races, it's probably just a case of going around the crashed car while the pace cars just phase through the collided cars. But maybe someone has already experienced such a scenario, hence my question to feed my curiosity. Thanks


r/iRacing 12h ago

Discussion Why is no one driving Mclaren GT4

7 Upvotes

Hi guys,

right now Im trying to decide which GT4 car to buy. I checked the splits of the last days and saw that like 95% are BMW and Mercs.

I drove the Mclaren in test drive and thought its pretty nice.

Is there any major downside to it? I tried the same tracks with the GT4 porsche, merc, bmw & mclaren and I had the feeling that I made the most "progress" in the mclaren.

Is it because its easier to drive? I can imagine that its maybe harder to "learn" the merc and bmw, but in the end they are faster?


r/iRacing 9h ago

Question/Help FFB Question?

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Trying to see if I did this correctly, I currently have a RS50 and the wheel outputs 8NM. Under wheel force I marked it at 8NM and then under strength I moved the slider to “43 8NM” which means that the game matches the output of my wheel to make it feel 100% accurate to FFB of car meaning it’s 1:1 scaling? Or am I getting this wrong?

I was originally playing with the slider all the way down and I was always wondering why iRacing felt like I was using powered steering with every car but now I’m down a rabbit hole with for feedback settings and I think I have it right where it’s at right now.


r/iRacing 11h ago

New Player A good car and track to demo drive?

4 Upvotes

I did my first online race last night and loved it. Was excited to race again today but we’re hit with emergency maintenance.

As someone who is very new, very much in rookie, and has only used the MX-5 online, what would be a good car to try that is used a lot in higher class races, and what track is good to learn while we have Demo Drive available?


r/iRacing 1d ago

Replay Driver attempts intentional wreck…fails miserably

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298 Upvotes

Almost witnessed a massacre at Spa in F4. Enjoy😇